San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-28
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs


The genius OF the Statesman has
| evolved itself. 1t lies In enumeratiDg
adolescent aviform ere they cease to be
oviform.
The Fort Worth Gazette knocks that
reported $4,000 anti-gatherlng down to
5000, but comedies that IL took the di-
lapidsted linen from the shrubbery. 1t
was large enough to overshadow all
North Texas.
The cotton men Of Texas are making
arrangements TO bale an immense crop.
Estimates place the yield IN advance Of
the great output OF 1882 by several thou
sand bales. Stocks on hand are report
ed short, and light export shipments are
being made.
DUvAL county goes In TO convict all
indicted parties and so makes sure of
the returns. 10 her last term OF court,
however, by some mistake, one OF the
batch OF fourteen, against whom indict-
ments were found. WAS permitted to es-
espe.
IL drawing the fire Of the snti-prohi-
bitiOnist stAtisticisDs on liquor lunstics
AAC Hlb1lOAAANAleAe III Z III hC llleNdhts
The returns show that religious excite
ment lays over s whisky craze rear
~ two 10 one S. an sctive promoter
OF insanity. Next.
BLAINE IL IS intensely interested in
every hing American In England aid
ScotlsId as be is 10 American matters
and thing: st home. So says Geo. Pull
man, who hiss just returned from Scot
and. Blaine is resting. enjoying himself
snd taking 90 persOnpl thought about
politics.
The fool killer did not join Sells cir
Gus this year and the gsloOt who did
duty tor S Texas bronco sIradddler in
the rescue Of the stage coach got in
his work with = sure-enOugh pistOI,
cleared the tent and killed four victims
before he discovered that the Internal
thing was loaded.
The Glenn bill will become law.
What Georgia will do without the col
Ored labor that will shake the dust from
it's feet after the passage OF the bill re-
mains to be seen. A very wise man
once said that lawful things were not
alwRys eXpedient, but IL remains tor the
Georgia Legislature to say that iuexpe-
dent things are criminal.
The utter iallacy OF some of DR.. Car
rolls positions on the liquor question as
given in his speeches is well shown in
three column review Of the Houston
Post. No full conception OF the insin.
cerity, or adrOit covering up Of issues
contained In the Dr.'s speech can ever
be understood until he has been careful
iy listened to. The DR.. has shat pecu-
liar mental organization which belle es
what 1t wishes and there loses faith in
all things else.
Gov. Ross does not Bay much concern
ing the pending attempt to subvert the
liberties Of this state, but what be does
say ia dignitied,tO the point, and such rs
is in keeping with his responsible posi-
lion. He Goes not think society needs
to be put under the surveillance Of the
state, and considers Texas well enough
OFF without this offensive state guar
disnship.
How gratefully the sympathy ex-
pressed for Mrs. Logan must fall upon
her ears, mOuthed by the journals which
cursed her husband while living and de-
| famed him dead. Such Journals ONLY
insult where they seek to soOthe. The
noble widow Of BLACK Jack Logan"
will find more true consolation in one
| honest tear dropped by friend and fol-
| lower OF her idOliZed husband, than in
all the fulsome eulOges OF sycophantio
penny-a-liners.
The darkest day has it's Examinations.
The darkest hour is just before the
| dawn. Ireland, sitting In the ashes and
dIsconsOlateness of her expressions I'M
| der the Infamous crimes act which has
just become law, has CLEANS ofsunshine.
The hope Of Ireland is In the increase of
| English liberalism, and the steadily
growing feeling Of Indignation against
this recent act OF treachery, which WAS
so elOquently voiced in the protest OF
those twenty-fOur peers, is bearing it's
fruit day by day. In the evening tide Of
this century Ireland will have light.
THE gslvsnic battery OF public opin-
ion ia again in violent operation en-
deavoring to inject some vitality into
the health sense Of the San Antonio CITY
council. The general verdict seems to
be against sewers, nationally this time,
and ii now remains to be seen how long
the mastery inactivity of the municipal
fathers. who have left their children in
the filth altogether too long for comfort,
will avail TO give the gO-by to the fur
mace project, leaving our citizens to the
mercy OF God, the scum OF the river,
the filth OF the Oesspools and the piIy
of the devil. 1t is utterly useless to
waste words over the bald-headed mac
ton which places us at the mercy OF
disease anu gives no remedy but the
wave of indignation which, pulsing
along the streets, rises high enough al
times to sweep all the filth OF the city
seward and the incubus OF the health
department Of the city council along
with 1t.
A DENVER examiner who has been in.
vestigating mine reports in Llsno oOun.
ty, writes encOuragingly from Valley
Springs as one of The richest minera
sections prOspectlvely in the southwest
O!fOr a state geOlOgist, or for legisla
ture with brains enough to create sC
important an office. These exparte re
ports are not what the people of Texas
need. They want report by cOmpe
tent experts under the broad seal o
state endorsement, and then they will
have something that they can depend
upon. Will the 2lst be as stupid?